Connectors
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 22 August 2022
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In an NBA where star players have the most value and whose impact is felt most, it's the connective players who help elevate stars through their feel for the game and ability to extend advantage that often have more value than their salary would indicate. Pete, Mike, and Darius discuss the Lakers pivot towards more of these player types this season than last, and why Troy Brown Jr.'s potential to fill this type of role on both sides of the ball could be instrumental in the team's success this year.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.4 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:06.0 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:07.3 | You're kidding. |
| 0:08.6 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:12.8 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.8 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.4 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. Correct. What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Filmroom podcast, brought you by the Blue Rour podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And guys, one of the great joys of watching tape on players is that every once in a while you're going to come across something that |
| 0:38.2 | you're like, I would have never realized that or come to that conclusion had I not watched |
| 0:43.2 | and gone back and just taken a bit of a closer look. And so I was watching tape on Troy Brown, |
| 0:49.5 | who he's the last of the new guys that we've acquired that we haven't done a pod on yet. So if you're interested in our thoughts on some of the new guys, we have previous pods. You can check out. And this pod will be sort of about Troy Brown. But I want to start with one of the things I realized while I was watching him. My favorite part of his game is that he's a pretty good passer. He has all sorts of like left hand, right hand, bounce pass, scoop passes, no look. |
| 1:15.1 | He's pretty clever with the ball in that respect. |
| 1:17.9 | And I realized we actually have several guys that kind of fit that description of a 3&D guy |
| 1:25.2 | who does play defense isn't necessarily a very good shooter, but can handle the |
| 1:30.7 | ball a bit and can pass the ball really well. And that attribute of passing, Darius, is something |
| 1:36.0 | you're one of the people who I know that I think you have one of the keenest eyes for the importance |
| 1:41.4 | of passing, that attribute in particular. And so I'm curious |
| 1:45.2 | your thoughts on this. I think we have several guys who we have a couple of guys at the top |
| 1:49.3 | between LeBron and Russ or if we make a trade, you know, whomever would fill that spot, |
| 1:54.1 | who can attract the defense's attention. Those are the guys that I call those advantage |
| 1:58.0 | creators. This year, I think we have a lot of advantage extenders, |
| 2:01.8 | those guys who know how to make that swing pass. You always talk on the pod about the swing |
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